Tenth Avenue Angel

1936. Paroled after serving eighteen months in prison for his only foray into crime in acting as the getaway driver for a robbery, cabbie Steve Abbutt returns to his working class Tenth Avenue downtown New York City neighborhood where he is required to stay for six months in his parole conditions. Despite she standing by his side during his incarceration, Steve doesn't intend on marrying his girlfriend Susan Bratten in not wanting her saddled with the baggage of his crime, and does intend on leaving the city alone after his parole to give himself that fresh start in life. Arguably, the only person more disappointed than pragmatic Susan is her eight year old niece, Flavia Mills, who loves Steve enough to do whatever required for him to marry her aunt and who was told and still believes that Steve was away for that eighteen months on an around the world trip. The moral compass of the neighborhood, Flavia is still at a stage of life where she believes everything she is told by those she loves, including the literal translation of old wives tales and proverbs told to her by her parents, violin teacher Joseph Mills and housewife Ellen Mills. As Steve's six months progresses toward Christmas, Flavia begins to lose faith in humanity in learning that loved ones, including her mother and Steve, are not the perfect people she thought they were, as such she no longer knowing who or what to believe. Flavia will have to find a way to have that faith again, in her mother, in Steve, and in life in general.